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Trump Declares a "Liberation Day" for D.C. · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital
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  Speaker 1: from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse. This is
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  Speaker 1: Liberation Day in DC, and we're going to take our
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  Speaker 1: capital back. We're taking it back.
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  Speaker 2: If you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with
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  Speaker 2: Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Tuesday morning, So nice to have you with us
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  Speaker 3: on the forty seven Morning Update. And there is only
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  Speaker 3: one big story today, Donald Trump putting the DC Police
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  Speaker 3: Department under federal control, deploying the National Guard, and getting
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  Speaker 3: every federal resource involved to make America's capital safe again.
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  Speaker 3: Could this be a blueprint for success around the country
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  Speaker 3: And why is the President doing it right now? Plus
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  Speaker 3: why are Democrats losing their minds over this, calling the
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  Speaker 3: president a dictator a tyrant for trying to keep Americans safe.
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  Speaker 3: it's a forty seven Morning Update, and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump promised all Americans, no matter where you lived,
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  Speaker 3: even in a liberal city, that he was gonna do
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  Speaker 3: everything in his power to keep you safe. He also
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  Speaker 3: said he was going to crack down on drugs, cartels,
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  Speaker 3: naming them terrorists organizations, and stopping the flow of illegal
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  Speaker 3: immigrants across the southern border. The President is making good
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  Speaker 3: on all of those promises, and now there's a new one,
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  Speaker 3: and it's making liberals lose their mind. The President invokes
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  Speaker 3: section seven forty of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act,
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  Speaker 3: allowing him to take over the Metropolitan Police Department and
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  Speaker 3: deploy the National Guard under declaration of a public safety emergency. Democrats,
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  Speaker 3: of course, are angry that the president of United States
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  Speaker 3: of America may actually save lives, get drugs off the streets,
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  Speaker 3: and restore law and order to our nation's capital. So
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  Speaker 3: what are they doing. They're saying, this is what a
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  Speaker 3: dictator and a tyrant would do. Yes, Democrats are so
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  Speaker 3: unhinged now they're claiming that as the President's trying to
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  Speaker 3: save lives, that he's somehow a dictator. Now, the scale
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  Speaker 3: of the deployment will be up to eight hundred National
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  Speaker 3: Guard troops and around five hundred federal law enforcement personnel,
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  Speaker 3: including over one hundred FBI agents, plus members from the DEA,
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  Speaker 3: the atf, ICE, and US marshals. They're all being deployed
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  Speaker 3: to patrol the streets in Washington, d C. Trump's justification
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  Speaker 3: very simple. He described the city as descending into chaos,
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  Speaker 3: using words like bloodshed to frame the intervention as a
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  Speaker 3: liberation day. He warned similar federal actions could extend to
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  Speaker 3: other big cities such as New York and Los Angeles. Now,
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  Speaker 3: what does the crime data show? It actually shows, thank goodness,
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  Speaker 3: that violent crime across the country is coming down. Why
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  Speaker 3: because the President's backing law enforcement and allowing them to
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  Speaker 3: do their job. And we're also witnessing ice agents taking
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  Speaker 3: hardened criminals off the streets that are in the country illegally.
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  Speaker 3: This is exactly why the president is having such success. Now,
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  Speaker 3: responses are obviously different depending on if you're a Democrat
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  Speaker 3: or Republican. Mayor Bowser condemned the move as quote unsettling
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  Speaker 3: in DC and unprecedented, asserting the city doesn't meet legal
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  Speaker 3: criteria she claims for a federal emergency. Yes, she cares
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  Speaker 3: more about playing politics than saving lives. She puts instead
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  Speaker 3: for more judicial resources and staffing. Again, bureaucracy over policing.
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  Speaker 3: DC's Attorney general is exploring legal options, they're saying as well,
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  Speaker 3: and the DC City Council members called the move an
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  Speaker 3: intrusion on local authority quote unquote, this is all politics
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  Speaker 3: for them instead of actually protecting Americans. I want you
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  Speaker 3: to hear what the President had to say as he
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  Speaker 3: announces to the White House in his own words.
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  Speaker 1: Under the authorities vested in me as the President of
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  Speaker 1: the United States, I'm officially invoking section seventy forty of
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  Speaker 1: the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, you know what
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  Speaker 1: that is, and placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department and
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  Speaker 1: under direct federal control. And you'll be meeting the people
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  Speaker 1: that will be directly involved with that. Very good people,
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  Speaker 1: but they're tough, and they know what's happening. They've done
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  Speaker 1: it before. In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to
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  Speaker 1: help re establish law order of public safety in Washington,
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  Speaker 1: d C. And they're going to be allowed to do
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  Speaker 1: their job properly.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
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  Speaker 3: That is the core point of what President Trump has
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  Speaker 3: been saying over and over again when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: law enforcement. Let law enforcement officers do their jobs the
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  Speaker 3: right way. Now, how do we get to this point? Well,
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  Speaker 3: the President also talked about the radicals in DC, for example,
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  Speaker 3: having no cash bail and it's putting people's lives at risk.
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  Speaker 1: This dire public safety crisis stems directly from the abject
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  Speaker 1: failures of the city's local leadership. The radical city Council
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  Speaker 1: adopted no cash bail. By the way, every place in
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  Speaker 1: the country you have no cash is a disaster. That's
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  Speaker 1: what started the problem in New York, and they don't
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  Speaker 1: change it. They don't want to change it. That's what
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  Speaker 1: started it in Chicago. I mean, bad politicians started and
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  Speaker 1: bad leadership started it. But that was the one thing
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  Speaker 1: that's central. No cash bail. Somebody murders somebody and they're
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  Speaker 1: out on no cash bail before the day is out.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to end that in Chicago. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: change the statute. I spoke with Pam and Todd and everybody.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to change the statue. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: have to get the Republicans to vote because the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are week on crime, totally weak on.
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  Speaker 3: Crime, totally week on crime. The stats say he's absolutely accurate.
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  Speaker 3: And the President United States of America saying, this is
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  Speaker 3: our moment to shine, to take back our nation's capital,
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  Speaker 3: and we're not going to allow Democrats to hold us
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  Speaker 3: hostage any longer. Ag BONDI also saying this about what's
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  Speaker 3: happening in DC.
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  Speaker 4: Let me be crystal clear, crime in DC is ending
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  Speaker 4: and ending today. We are going to use every power
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  Speaker 4: we have to fight. I'm your president. Thank you for
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  Speaker 4: caring about our capital. Families come here every summer. Our
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  Speaker 4: museums are free, we have the National Zoo, we have
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  Speaker 4: the National Gallery. DC should be a place where everyone
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  Speaker 4: can come and feel safe.
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  Speaker 3: It's all about safety. That is the presen's number one
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  Speaker 3: priority for all Americans, and yet Democrats are doing everything
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  Speaker 3: they can to try to stop the President from accomplishing
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  Speaker 3: this goal. Donald Trump also saying this as well, about
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  Speaker 3: what's happening in DC.
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  Speaker 1: Becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness. And we
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  Speaker 1: getting rid of the slums too. We have slums here.
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  Speaker 2: We getting rid of them.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's not politically correct, you'll say, oh, so terrible. No,
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  Speaker 1: we're getting rid of the slums where they live.
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  Speaker 3: We're getting rid of the slums. Now. You listen also
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  Speaker 3: to something else on this Liberation Day, and that is
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  Speaker 3: again the President saying we're taking our capital back. The
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  Speaker 3: man who's in charge of the Department of Defense, Pete Headseth,
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  Speaker 3: went on Laura Ingram Show, and this is what he
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  Speaker 3: had to say about what the President has ordered him
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  Speaker 3: to do.
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  Speaker 5: This capital belongs to all Americans, and starting now, we're
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  Speaker 5: taking it back. And that's the angle. Secretary of Defense
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  Speaker 5: Pete Hegseth was given the tall order of handling this
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  Speaker 5: and he's here with me exclusively. Mister Secretary, thank you
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  Speaker 5: for joining us tonight. So the President called this a
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  Speaker 5: public safety emergency, and you said, we're going to start
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  Speaker 5: seeing the National Guard this week, tell us more this
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  Speaker 5: week and incoming weeks, and we're going to work right
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  Speaker 5: alongside our law enforcement partners as force multipliers.
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  Speaker 6: This is what the American people voted for, Laura. This
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  Speaker 6: is what the common sense, clarity strength. I hadn't heard
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  Speaker 6: that story from President Trump before the story he told
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  Speaker 6: about his father that he told him, hey, son, if
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  Speaker 6: you look at the front door of a restaurant and
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  Speaker 6: it's dirty, then I bet the kitchen you can count
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  Speaker 6: on the fact that the kitchen is too and sat
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  Speaker 6: there thinking that's exactly right. If our capital city is
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  Speaker 6: a mess, if we can't control our capital city, then
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  Speaker 6: what does the rest of the country look like and
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  Speaker 6: what signals does the rest the country take from that? So,
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  Speaker 6: just like we did in Los Angeles, alongside our federal law,
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  Speaker 6: we took a lot of criticism for four thousand troops,
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  Speaker 6: seven hundred marines, you know what we didn't get. There
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  Speaker 6: was no summer of love in twenty twenty. There was
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  Speaker 6: in twenty twenty five. There was a summer of law enforcement,
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  Speaker 6: and we quelled the protests of the attacks on ice officers.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to help get DC under control by working
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  Speaker 6: with local officials who have been federalized, with federal officials
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  Speaker 6: who are coming in. The DC Guards proud to be
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  Speaker 6: a part of it. Other states will contribute this week,
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  Speaker 6: going into the weeks to come. Whatever's needed, the DoD
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  Speaker 6: will provide to make sure this is a safe city
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  Speaker 6: for those who live here, for those that work here,
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  Speaker 6: and the Americans who want to come visit here and
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  Speaker 6: love our capital city.
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  Speaker 5: The question of martial law keeps getting raised by the
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  Speaker 5: left that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth they want to
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  Speaker 5: impose martial law as authoritarians would.
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  Speaker 6: To that, you said to that, I say, look at
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  Speaker 6: Los Angeles. They said the exact same thing. Oh look,
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  Speaker 6: oh look, four thousand troops California National Guard. Oh look
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  Speaker 6: the marine you can't put in the marie is what
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  Speaker 6: they were. The troops available to ensure that we de
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  Speaker 6: escalated the situation and didn't allow other lawbreakers to say, look,
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  Speaker 6: it's wide open. We can do whatever we want in
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  Speaker 6: these sanctuary cities. I was told, oh, you're going to
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  Speaker 6: lock up political opponents, You're going to go after democrats, YadA, YadA.
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  Speaker 6: It's the same stuff every time, mischaracterizing our intentions. The
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  Speaker 6: intentions of this president is to establish law and order
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  Speaker 6: using legal and lawful and constitutional means, which he completely
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  Speaker 6: has and you know what, you know why they don't
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  Speaker 6: like him. He's got the guts to do it. He's
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  Speaker 6: got the guts to say I'm going to federalize the
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  Speaker 6: police that are that don't work. I'm going to bring
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  Speaker 6: in the National Guard, I'm going to bring in federal marshals.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to bring in the park police. What is
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  Speaker 5: the cost money? Right, cost money? And the question is
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  Speaker 5: are you there for a year? Are you there for
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  Speaker 5: six months? And when the troops pull out? What happened?
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  Speaker 6: I would call this conditions based. I would say it's
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  Speaker 6: a situation where we're here to support law enforcement, and
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  Speaker 6: the more we can free them up to do their job,
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  Speaker 6: the more effective they can be, the more we can work.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, this isn't my realm, but the justice system
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  Speaker 6: to make sure people who are arrested are actually locked up.
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  Speaker 6: That's why the president's talking about cash list, bear bail,
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  Speaker 6: and sanctuary cities. If you're illegal here in DC, that's
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  Speaker 6: going to be a problem. So all of these things
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  Speaker 6: that apply to law and order are our front and
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  Speaker 6: center for us. And I don't know weeks, months, what
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  Speaker 6: will it take. That's the President's call, but we're going
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  Speaker 6: to be there for him to execute as swiftly as possible.
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  Speaker 3: Well then as swiftly as possible. This is what you
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  Speaker 3: voted for and the presence delivering on that promise of
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  Speaker 3: having safer cities, safer streets, safer capital, and making sure
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  Speaker 3: we are protecting everyone in this country, regardless of who
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  Speaker 3: you voted for.
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